The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-03-10
SACRAMENTAL SUNDAY.
NEARLY FOUR HUNDRED NEW MEN,
BERS FOR DIR. TAEMAGE.


Grand Success of the Celebrated Brook
Iyn Divine's Latest Revival at the
Tabernacie-"This Day Shall BE Unto
You For a Memorial"
BROOKLYN, March 6.-This is sacramental
day in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, and the SER
mon is preached at the reception of three
hundred and forty-seven new members, max
ing six hundred and ninety received during
the present revival, so that the communicate
membership now is four thousand and fifty
ona. The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, d. d.
the pastor, gave the right hand of fellowship
to the new members, and baptized about
ninety. The audience sang:
Blest be the tie that bir ds
Our hearts in Christian love.
There was great arch of flowers over the
pulpit containing the words: II believe in
the communion of saints" DIR. Talmage tool;
two texts: l Chronicles, xiii, 5: "And
four thousand praised the Lord" and Exodus
XII, IA; "This day shall be unto you for q
memorial" He said:
When week before last the communicate
membership OF this church passed into the
four thousand, now reaching four thousand
ard fifty-one, the first part of my text came
to my mind, and l bethought myself what a
grand thing it would be if the four thousand
OF our communicant membership would, like
the four thousand of the ancient Temple,
make it their lifetime business to praise the
lord. Let them all take harp and timbrel
and anthem and doxologyl
Tho allusiou OF my second text Is to the
Passover, which comnemOrated The deliver
ance Of the children Of Israel n the night
when the destroying angel sped. through the
hand Of Egypt, destroying the enemy but
saving the Israclitos, because on the door
posts of their dwellings was sprinkled the
blood Of q lamb To-day we come to cele-
brate a grander Passover, all peril going
dway from our soul at the sight Of the
sprinlzed blood of the Lamb of God on the
doorposts OF our hearts. Christ our Passover,
sacrificed for u.s. ''Ihis day shall bo unto
you for a memorial" ."
The sacramento Sabbath, whether it comes
in an American church or an English chapel,
or Scotch kirk, is more impressive than any
other Sabbath It's light is holier, calmer,
sweeter; its voices more tender, its touch is
softer, its memories are more chastened. The
fruits of the Christian life suddenly ripen like
orchards on tho hill fronting the south. The
wine of the holy sacrament seems pressed
from the grapes of celestial vineyards, and
the bread broken seems TO drop from the hand
OF him who parted the loaves for 5000. We
walk to tho church of God with more thought
ful face and with quieter step. The jubliant
songs of other Sundays are struck
through with pensivoness and are all a.
tremble with tears; and when at the close
Of the service, at the door we shake hands, 1t
Is with a more cordial grasp, because we feel
thrilling through our body and mind and
Goul the great doctrines of Christian brother
hood and our minds go back to our forefath-
ers celebrating the sacrament III times of per-
secution in Scotland among the Highlands;
commemorating the dying love of Christ,
while they were pursued of their enemies,
pouring the wine into rough wooden cups,
dipping the waters of baptism from the
mountain rock, until one day they heard the
voices of their enemies coming up the
hill, and the pastor cried out: "Oh, Lord,
the Shepherd, have mercy on the sheep!'
and instantly there was q roaring heard
as Of great floods, and sure enough cloud
had burst and there wero great torrents run
ming down the mountain side that whelmeo
their foes with sudden wrath. What deliv
sranee it was for them on that sacramento
dayl Oh that on this sacramental day the
sins be whelned and our souls be saved! This
Is the amethyst of days. This is the pearl OF
days. This is the diamond of days. This i;
the day of days. Among the ten Thousand
million ages of eternity the first Sabbath Of
March, 1887 will be to you significant ano
memorable, for "this day shall be unto you
forever and forever "a memorial"
There is much III the scene of to-day to i'm
Eress us because it is time of re-enforce
ment. | used to remark that if l ever lived
to see our membership reach 1000 thought
| would be willing to say with one of old
"Now, Lord, lettest thou thy servant depart
In peace for nline eyes have seen thy saliva
tion" But 1 have changed my mind, and
never SO much wanted to stay as now, so a
to see them all enlisted for God and to watcf
their victories. What might they not accom-
plish in the way of making the world better
if they were all baptized with a double
portion Of the Holy Ghostl -Four thousand
That is four full regiments, as military mel
count a thousand to n regiment think no
ore hypocrite among them. Taken into th
church sometimes in largo numbers, but eacl
one as carefully examined as to change o
heart. and evidence of regeneration as though
he or she were tho only one presenting him
self or herself Many of our former member
ioned the church triumphant, but we hav
1900 and more left for the church militant
To arms Quit you like menl We want nj
reserve corps among them. Go into action
NIL of YOU Some will he officers in com
mand; some will make cavalry charge SOM
VIII be besharpshooters; some will stand guard
some viii be on picket duty; many of yol
Will belong to the rank and file Let Their
be no stragglers, mono off on furlough, no
one deserter With Christ for commander-in in
chief, and the one starred, blood striped ban
ner of manger and cross to lead the way,
give the order that tho general in the wa
gave, when rising in his stirrups, his hal
Hying in the wind, he cried out till all tn
host heard him: "Forward the whole linel
There is also something i'll such q scene +
deeply impress one, because it rehearses
death scene. Now, you know, there is some
thing very Aouching in such an incident
Though YOU are in hotel, and it is O strange
that is dying, how softly you move about til
pl zee, and if you come up TO his couch, it
with uncovered head. Even the voice of tn
lester is stopped, and when the eyes of tina
stranger are closed it is with emotion. But
am to tell you this morning of a death sue
MS has never before or since occurred. Whe
,ve die we die for ourselves and the crises
aIleviated by all benefcent ministries. Batl
mos for tho hands, bath;ngs for the heaC
bathings for the feet the light turned dow
low or set, in lust the right place; all the of
ces of affection about us when we come to dl
But not so with Jesus. He died not for hin
self but he died in torment and he died fl
others. He might have moved around !
gardens made by his own hand, an earthl
potentate amid vineyards and olive grow
sloping to the sea. Instead of being tosse
in the fishing boat on Tiberius he migl
have chosen a sunshiny day and a pleasai
wave for the lake crossing. Instead of beir
followed 10y an unwnshed rabble he migl
have charmed sanhedrims and universiti
with his eloquence. Instead of a cross and
bunch of twisted brambles on his brow I
might have died in the castle of a Roma
merchant. the air bland with lilies and fran
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